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Twelve questions Turkey’s journalists can’t ask

Freedom of the press has been one of the chief casualties of Erdoğan’s rule. He has confiscated newspapers, sued their editors, and imprisoned journalists. Reporters Without Frontiers ranks Turkey’s press freedom 151st (155 as of July ’17) in the world out of 180, below Vladimir Putin’s Russia. In the forthcoming year, as Erdoğan’s state of emergency and purge continue, Turkey’s ranking will likely fall further, perhaps even below the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) of NATO Allied Command Operations was asked if he thought they might have been involved in the planning of a coup, Scaparrotti said: “No…These officers served well here in NATO”